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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.

You daily dive into the news.

It is Wednesday, and there is a lot to talk about.

Starting with this.

Let's talk about this Graham Platner controversy. If you don't know Platner, he's a Democratic candidate in Maine Senate race. He's kind of blown up online as a late, has raised millions and millions of dollars, but he's now found himself in a predicament. And it stems from this video that's now been widely seen from the Pons of America podcast. And in it, you can see he has a tattoo, and it looks a lot like a toten cop for a death set. Yes, technically the death set has existed in German military traditions for much longer than the Nazis, but ever since World War II and its use among SS divisions, it's been exclusively associated with them. And with that, you have Platner claiming that he got this tattoo back in 2007 while in the Marine Corps and on leave in Croatia.

And that one night he got drunk and decided to get a skull and crossbones tattoo without ever realizing that the one that he got was, or at the very least, is very similar to the Nazi symbol.

With him also claiming that he only recently learned about the resemblance, made plans to get it removed, and that also despite multiple government agencies taking a look at it.

So for example, he joined the army and they check all tattoos for any possible hate symbols,

and apparently they didn't have any issue with it.

With Platner, also adding there, I also passed a full background check to receive a security clearance

to join the ambassador to Afghanistan security detail.

And with all of that, as yesterday it appears that he has gotten the tattoo covered up with him

telling reporters, going to a tattoo removal place is going to take a while, I wanted this thing off my body. So you have all of that, that's playing out, but also it's not the only thing that's been playing out. Because it seems like whoever is doing the opposition research here has been doing their job. Because in addition to the tattoo situation, there's also been a controversy around his old Facebook and Reddit posts and or questions around black people's tipping habits, mocking rural Americans and

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